About Phil Young

Phil Young is the founder and president of Nth Degree Systems, Inc., a corporate education consulting firm that designs and implements seminars and training programs in finance, marketing, and strategy.  He has over 25 years of experience in this area of consulting. In addition, he is a member of the Duke Corporate Education Global Learning Resource Network. The Financial Times and BusinessWeek continue to rate Duke CE as the world’s #1 provider of customized corporate education services.

Among his present and past clients are: IBM, Microsoft, at&t, Verizon, Dow Chemical, ST Microelectronics, BT (British Telecom), Ingersoll-Rand, Ericsson, MasterCard International, American Express, Booz Allen and Hamilton, and Ingersoll-Rand.  He has conducted corporate education programs for these and a number of other companies throughout the United States, Asia (China, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan), Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Colombia), all the major countries in Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe (Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Russia), Sweden and Finland, and the Middle East/Gulf States (Israel, Egypt, Dubai).

Prior to founding his own firm, Phil was a Professor of Economics and Finance at Pace University in New York, where he taught in the MBA program for 25 years. While at Pace he was appointed as the first visiting professor in IBM's International Finance, Planning and Administration School located in NY and Belgium. In addition, he was the Director of Corporate Education for Pace University. His responsibilities included the academic leadership of Pace's corporate education and Executive MBA programs.

He has also taught in executive education programs sponsored by Columbia University, The University of California at Berkeley, Thunderbird, and Cornell University. He is the co-author of a major economics textbook entitled Managerial Economics: Economic Tools for Today's Decision Makers, published by Prentice-Hall (2008, 6^th edition forthcoming.) Along with a colleague, he has written an important book in economics for business managers entitled The Portable MBA in Economics, John Wiley & Sons, 1994. International editions of this book have been translated into Chinese, Russian, and Spanish.

Phil received a B.A. from the University of Hawaii, a Master's degree in international relations from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in economics from New York University.